Nursing Education and the Computer, comment

The computer is such a vast magnitude of information and when used appropriately can be a wonderful education tool. I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to attend class because I have taken internet courses for so long. I love it for the convenience. The only downfall that I see to education via the computer is that the individual must be disciplined and take initiative. In other words, I have learned that I must still schedule my school time. The other thing is that is is my responsibility to look for clinical education. I use my current employment to get clinical experience to assist in the studies I am currently doing. I think nurses and anyone really can benefit from computer education if used the right way. I do believe we must be cognizant of the fact that not all information on the internet is accurate and we must utilize information from reputable sites.

Original Post:April 22, 2009The information that we can gain to utilize in our nursing career issignificant. I currently work with the Director of the Child Abuse team.She is a remarkable physician and is constantly working to keep the nursingstaff up to date in assessing for child abuse. A few years ago she showed avideo of a daycare provider’s boyfriend physical abusing an infant on ananny cam. The day care provider was suspicious of her boyfriend and hid avideo camera when she left the children alone with him. After seeing thevicious beating on tape she immediately called the parent and had the childbrought to the local ER. The child had not one bruise and not one brokenbone. To see this video is to assume the child would be barley breathing.The doctor’s intent of the video is to show us recent information about anongoing child abuse case and to re-enforce a child victim of abuse does notnecessarily have the marks to show it. The current and readiness of theInternet to help educate has kept our clinic up to date on what to look forwith child abuse.